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Medical Genetics

  • PATH3305
  • not available in 2013 (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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This unit provides an overview of the etiology, diagnosis and management of genetic and epigenetic human diseases and provides a framework for understanding the human impact of these diseases. Increasingly, clinicians and medical scientists are required to ensure that genetic investigations yield results that meaningfully address the clinical question that is being asked. The unit offers insight into range of testing options now available and also the clinical utility of these tests. It also offers insight into the management of families with hereditary disorders, and the range of therapies now emerging for an increasing number of human diseases arising from abnormalities of gene... -- Course Website

Instructor: Winthrop Professor David Ravine

Prerequisites: PATH3303 Advanced Pathology and Laboratory Medicine or (GENE2230 Molecular Genetics I and GENE2250 Principles of Inheritance)



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